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Artois, Jean Van

, an eminent landscape painter,
was born at Brussels in 1613, and having been carefully
instructed in the art of painting by Wildens (as some authors imagine), he perfected himself by a studious observation of nature. His landscapes have an agreeable
solemnity, by the disposition of his trees, and the breaking
of his grounds the distances are well observed, and die
away perspectively, with a bluish distance of remote hills
and his figures are properly and very judiciously placed.
His pencil is soft, his touch light and free, particularly in
the leafing of his trees; and there is generally a pleasing
harmony in the whole. It is said that Teniers either
painted or retouched the figures of his landscapes. He is
remarkable for always ornamenting the stems of his trees
with moss, ivy, or other plants, the extremities of which
are often loosely hanging down. His pictures are coloured
with a force resembling those of Titian, except that sometimes they are a little too dark. Mechlin, Brussels,
Ghent, and the gallery of Dusseldorp, were ornamented
with many of his pictures. In the course of his practice,
he acquired a good fortune, but is said to have dissipated
it by giving entertainments to persons of rank. He died
in 1665, aged fifty- two. 2

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